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Making Posts from the @system Account

Rocks_Ford wants to know how to make posts from the @system account, which is used for official notices. ondrej suggests two options:

  1. Transfer post ownership to @system by using the post admin wrench and selecting ‘Change Ownership’.
  2. Impersonate @system by going to https://your-site-name/admin/users/-1/system and clicking on the impersonate button at the bottom.

For the second option to work, the user’s email must be listed as a developer email in the yml, as confirmed by ClawdiaWolf.

There is also a third option, though not recommended, which is to post as @system via the API using an admin-generated API key that is valid for all users.

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Hey there! How do I make posts from the @system account? I’ve been wondering as it’s our “Official Notice” account.

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Hi :wave:

There are two options I see here. The first is that you post something and then transfer ownership of your post / topic to system. This can be done by going to the post admin wrench :wrench: and selecting ‘Change Ownership’

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The second option is to Impersonate system by going to https://your-site-name/admin/users/-1/system and scrolling down to the bottom until you see this

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This will be next to the merge, delete and anonymise user buttons.

I believe that for this to work, your email must be in the developer email in the yml? (someone can correct me here if I’m wrong)

Hope this helped :wink:

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You’re correct. You can only impersonate admins (including system and discobot) if your email is listed as a developer email in yml.

There is a third option although I don’t recommend this personally. You can post as system via the API by using an admin generated API key that is valid for all users

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Thanks for your help!